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The First Coast Blues Society is a non-profit 501(3)c corporation and Blues Foundation Affiliate established for Blues musicians & fans to promote, preserve, support, encourage, and share their PASSION for Blues Music on the First Coast in Jacksonville Florida!

Our purpose – "to create a genuine grassroots community that fosters camaraderie amongst fans and sustains blues musicians. We strive to inform, engage and energize the public about blues music at the local level, ensuring that the genre remains a vibrant and vital facet of the larger music ecosystem. This shared purpose and power make the network of Blues Affiliates essential to the vitality of the contemporary blues scene". (Patricia Wilson Aden, Blues Foundation)

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We create and generate charitable functions like the FCBS Care & Share, The Blues Foundation's HART FUND and FCBS Regional Blues Challenge to help various local and national beneficial organizations. We also participate in local festivals like The Annual Springing The Blues Festival.

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Local bands are our driving force and our list of local talent is grand:

Smokestack, Toots Loraine and The Traffic, Guitar Red, Hat and Matching Suitcase, Mojo Roux, Billy Buchanan and his Rock & Soul Revue, Melt Behind The Wheel, Mama Blue, Greg Cuje Project, Second Shot Band, Kim Reteguiz & The Black Cat Bones, Big John Austill, Cat McWilliams Band, Allie and The Kats, Andy Toomey, Kato and Jiffy Feet, Lightning Sam Long, T Martin and The Troublemakers, Ivan Pulley Band, Blackwater Swamp Band, John Parker Urban, Good Wood Band, West Brook with Ginger Beard Man, Gerald Roberts and Will Hurley, Brady Clampitt, Paul Ivey and the Souls of Joy, Milltown Road Band, Bonnie Blue, Jenna Martinez, Melissa Smith, Bear and Robert, David Julia Band, Mark Stewart, Buddy Crump and The Cross Tie Walkers, Traveling Litt and the Purveyor, Reckless and Blue, Whitewater, Wildfire Rising, The Snacks Blues Band, The Rip Currents, Charlie Mayne Band, Bluesdog66, Mark & Myrna, Jacksonville Slim and Express Train, Cassidy Lee Barden, Highway Jones, Roy Book Binder, Cindy Bear & Franc Robert, Back Alley Cadillac, Off The Cuff, Honey Hounds, Danny Delves and The Deadly Nightshades, Them Vagabonds, The Billy Monarch Band, The Shakedown, Jazzy Blue, Noisy Neighbors, Henry Jones, Madison Carr, The Raiford Brothers Band, Kapowski, Side Hustle, 2fye Octopi, Blues Bishop Band, The Deviljays, Split Town Saints, Cowford Town Band, Under The Bus Blues Band, Dalton Ammerman, The Push, Schizophrenic Sky, Kyle Yardley Band, Duffy Bishop Band, Serious Business, Rachel Hillman, Special Formula Band, Valor, Randy Bluesdog Cash, Alex Richman, Disciples of the South, Bridget Kelly Band, Eryn & Mat O'ree, Doug Tibbs of HUMAN, Paul Wayne of Duval County Line, Jeff Ganz Mike Maple & Tony Scozzaro, Harley Lamoureux, Swamp Cabbage, Bryce Alastair Band, Matt O'Ree Band, Gabe Stillman, Little Mike and the Tornadoes, 9lb Hammer, LochHess Monsters, Voodoo Monkeys, Gitlo Lee, JW Gilmore, Rhythm & Keys Band, Hitman Blues, No Filter, Mississippi Blues Band, Roscoe Cain, Stephanie Perez, Band of Devils,  Reckless Road & Sweet Melissa ....just to name a few.

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Blues in Northeast Florida has an amazing history! Once a major stop on the historical Chitlin Circuit, almost 100 years later, many variations of Blues continues to dominate the Northeast Florida music scene. So why not join the First Coast Blues Society and help support the Blues in Northeast Florida. Membership brings many benefits. You will know about blues events throughout the metropolitan Jacksonville area, Northeast Florida and any major events beyond our borders! Especially if our local artists are traveling! You can contribute to our blues heritage through a broad range of volunteer activities, and share your musical talents during many of the monthly blues jams happening all over the city.